Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 27:3^4.

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

   Jesus, whenhehad cried againwith a loud voice, yielded up theghost. And behold, the veil of thetemple wasrent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 27:50^2.

And thesunwasdarkened, andtheveilofthetemplewas rent in the midst.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 23:45.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 6:19.

The dome of the Pantheon over the vault of theTemple of Peace.

-Bramante, Donato
c.1505  Description of his design for St Peter's, Rome. Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.

-Gibbon, Edward
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.6, note. Variations of the lines can be found in the various drafts of Gibbon's autobiography and in the last lines of the Decline and Fall:'It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally deliver to the curiosity and candour of the public' (vol.6, ch.71).

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

   Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Epithalamion, section12.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

-Thoreau, Henry David
 Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Higher Laws'.

The great temple of fiction has no well-marked front portal; most devoteesarrivethrough a side door, and not dressed for worship.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, III.'GettingTheWords Out'.